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...leavens this detailed history with dry asides. After ticking off two decades of techniques used to delay action on climate change--question the science, claim that the problem lies far off in the future and then switch to saying it's too late to do anything--he drolly notes, "The Bush Administration moved through this string of evasions in half a presidential term...
...last week that one of the missile shield's key satellite systems will cost more and take longer to get into orbit than planned. A day later, 49 retired U.S. military generals and admirals, including William Crowe, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, urged President Bush to delay building the system until the bugs are worked out. Among other things, no one knows whether the system will work at night or in bad weather...
...plan to launch a space shuttle and the weather is not fine, you can easily delay it a day or two ... For the Games, this is not possible." JACQUES ROGGE, president of the International Olympic Committee, stressing that Athens must finish its preparations for the 2004 Olympic Games on time. Only 15 of 35 venues are ready, and a planned roof for the main swimming pool has been canceled...
Although the Crimson (10-5, 8-5 EIVA) finished off the Pioneers (11-6, 5-3) it was not the blowout it appeared. After the twenty minute delay, Harvard started out sloppily, due largely to a slew of bad serves, and trailed for most of the game’s beginning. Only after winning some jousts at the top of the net, and buoyed by an authoritative sophomore opposite hitter Seamus McKiernan’s kill, the team soon tied the game at 14-14, and after holidng off a late...
...Fifteen clients have already died in the one year since the lawsuit was filed. We don’t have any basis to delay the expeditious continuation of this case,” he said...